In particular, India has been able to exploit its great comparative advantage in an era of broadband communications and globalisation: its wealth of technically adept, English-speaking talent.
China continues to go to great lengths to foster developing market trade partners -- some argue to exploit their natural resources in the case of Africa -- as part of its "Great Game" strategy.
We agree wholeheartedly, moreover, with the National Defense Panel in their conclusion that the decades to come will see great advances in the abilities of potential adversaries to exploit space for aggressive purposes and to interfere with our operations in outer space.
Consequently, a fiscally fit enterprise with a great historical record and the financial resources to fund and exploit a large and worldwide growing market, coupled with the expertise to be a leader, is my idea of a future great company.
And the environmental cost of continuing to exploit the world's fossil fuel supplies is now almost universally agreed to be so great that society can no longer afford to ignore it.